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List of works by Miklós Blahó

A new tabanid trap applying a modified concept of the old flypaper: Linearly polarising sticky black surfaces as an effective tool to catch polarotactic horseflies ⬇️

scientific article published on March 13, 2013

Accuracy of sun localization in the second step of sky-polarimetric Viking navigation for north determination: a planetarium experiment

article by Alexandra Farkas et al published 30 June 2014 in Journal of the Optical Society of America

Accuracy of the hypothetical sky-polarimetric Viking navigation versus sky conditions: revealing solar elevations and cloudinesses favourable for this navigation method.

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Adjustment errors of sunstones in the first step of sky-polarimetric Viking navigation: studies with dichroic cordierite/ tourmaline and birefringent calcite crystals

scientific article

An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

scientific article published on 3 February 2010

Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

How can horseflies be captured by solar panels? A new concept of tabanid traps using light polarization and electricity produced by photovoltaics ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

How could the Viking Sun compass be used with sunstones before and after sunset? Twilight board as a new interpretation of the Uunartoq artefact fragment

scientific article published in June 2014

New kind of polarotaxis governed by degree of polarization: attraction of tabanid flies to differently polarizing host animals and water surfaces ⬇️

scientific article published on May 12, 2012

No evidence for behavioral responses to circularly polarized light in four scarab beetle species with circularly polarizing exocuticle.

scientific article

Orientation with a Viking sun-compass, a shadow-stick, and two calcite sunstones under various weather conditions

scientific article published in September 2013

Phototaxis and polarotaxis hand in hand: night dispersal flight of aquatic insects distracted synergistically by light intensity and reflection polarization.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes

scientific article

Reducing the maladaptive attractiveness of solar panels to polarotactic insects

scientific article

Seasonality and daily activity of male and female tabanid flies monitored in a Hungarian hill-country pasture by new polarization traps and traditional canopy traps

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Spottier Targets Are Less Attractive to Tabanid Flies: On the Tabanid-Repellency of Spotty Fur Patterns ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2012

Stripes disrupt odour attractiveness to biting horseflies: Battle between ammonia, CO2, and colour pattern for dominance in the sensory systems of host-seeking tabanids ⬇️

scientific article published on June 28, 2013

Testing a polarimetric cloud imager aboard research vessel Polarstern: comparison of color-based and polarimetric cloud detection algorithms

scientific article published on February 2015

The effect of weather variables on the flight activity of horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in the continental climate of Hungary

scientific article

Unexpected attraction of polarotactic water-leaving insects to matt black car surfaces: mattness of paintwork cannot eliminate the polarized light pollution of black cars

scientific article

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